All Chapters of ALPHA ACADEMY:MARKED BY FOUR: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

11 Chapters

Chapter Nine – Cassian’s Test.

Last Updated : 2025-10-17

Chapter Eight: The Council’s Shadow

The next morning, Blackthorne looked almost peaceful. Sunlight spilled weakly through the mist, painting the courtyard in pale gold—almost enough to make the night before feel like a fever dream. Almost. Lyra pulled her cloak tighter as she crossed toward the main hall. The fountain had been cleared—what was left of it, anyway. Cracked stone, faint scorch marks, and a ring of guards where the water once shimmered. The Council’s banner fluttered above them, black and silver threads glinting. Whispers followed her. “Is that her?” “Vale’s girl?” “She was seen under the Red Moon.” Lyra kept walking, ignoring the sting of every stare. Her palms itched beneath her gloves, the faint glow under her skin refusing to fade. Even her heartbeat felt strange—slightly off, like the rhythm belonged to someone else. The Council’s summons had waited on her desk before dawn, carved in silver ink: Attendance required – Inquiry at first bell. She hadn’t needed to ask what it meant. *** Inside

Last Updated : 2025-10-17

Chapter Seven –Morning After the Red Moon

The first thing Lyra felt was warmth.Not the biting chill of Blackthorne’s stone walls, but steady warmth against her skin — a blanket heavier and softer than her own, and the faint crackle of fire somewhere close.When her eyes opened, it wasn’t the familiar ceiling of her dorm above her but one painted in shadow and gold. The room smelled faintly of ink and smoke — and something else, something that made her pulse trip.Leather. Cedar. Vale.She sat up too fast, the world tilting before her. A dark coat hung over a chair near the hearth, his insignia glinting faintly in the firelight. On the table beside her lay a glass of water, a folded cloth, and — her mark.Her breath caught.The faint, glowing lines had returned. They traced up from her palms, pale light pulsing under the skin, softer now but still alive. The memory of last night hit like a storm — the red moon, the wolves bowing, Vale’s voice, her mother’s warning.“He’s not who you think he is, Lyra.”Her gaze darted around

Last Updated : 2025-10-16

CHAPTER SIX- Under the Red Moon

The bell tolled at midnight.Once.Twice.Then silence.I woke with a start, every muscle locked tight. The air in my room was colder than it should have been, the kind of cold that seeped into bone, pulling goosebumps across my skin.The Red Moon.I didn’t have to look outside to know it hung above the Academy again. I could feel it—like the weight of unseen eyes pressing down through the roof.The whispers began next. Not from the hall, not from the other dorms—but from inside the walls. Soft. Layered. Dozens of voices, whispering in a tongue I didn’t understand.My heart pounded.This wasn’t a dream.I pushed the blanket aside, my bare feet meeting the chill of the floor. The glass I’d swept from the window days ago still glimmered faintly in the moonlight. My hands twitched, remembering how the wolves had once frozen under a single word from me.Not again, I told myself. Not tonight.But something was different. The air vibrated—alive, dangerous. I could almost taste it.When I fi

Last Updated : 2025-10-16

Chapter Five – The First Mark

I barely slept that night.Every time I closed my eyes, I saw the page from the Forbidden Library, saw the inked sketch of my mother staring back at me like she was still alive, whispering things I didn’t understand.When sleep finally dragged me under, it wasn’t rest—it was something else.A dream.Her voice wrapped around me in the dark. “They will obey you, Lyra.”I jerked awake, heart pounding, throat dry. My dorm window was cracked open, letting in the chill of dawn. The bell tower hadn’t rung yet, which meant it was far too early, but I couldn’t go back to sleep.Not with the heat burning in my palms.I pushed back the blanket and froze.Glowing faint lines crawled across the skin of my hands—like tiny rivers of fire etched into me. Not scars. Not bruises. Marks. They shimmered faintly, pulsing in rhythm with my heartbeat.I pressed my palms together, hoping the light would disappear. It didn’t.“What the hell is happening to me?” I whispered.No answer came.By the time classes

Last Updated : 2025-09-23

Chapter Four – The Forbidden Library

The whispers didn’t die. By the next day, they were louder, hungrier, like a fire licking higher every time I walked past. Every corner I turned, voices broke off into silence, eyes cutting into me like knives. I was a rumor now, walking proof of something none of them wanted to name. Legacy. Power. Wrong. The words tangled in the air, unspoken but sharp. I clutched my books tighter, kept my eyes on the ground, tried to breathe past the weight pressing down. “You know,” a smooth voice cut through, “the more you hunch like that, the more they’ll eat you alive.” I stopped dead. Cassian leaned lazily against the stone archway leading out of the hall, golden hair catching the lantern light, grin sharp enough to slice. He flicked a coin between his fingers like he had all the time in the world. I tightened my grip on my books. “What do you want?” “Want?” He pushed off the wall, falling into step beside me with too much ease. “Sweetheart, if I wanted anything, you’d already know. I

Last Updated : 2025-09-23

Chapter Three – Whispers in the Dark

The order in my head didn’t let me sleep.I lay stiff in bed, staring at the ceiling. My chest rose and fell too fast, lungs refusing to slow. Outside, the howls came in waves, circling closer, pulling something deep inside me tighter and tighter.And then, the bell rang.Not the morning kind. Not the deep underwater chime.This was sharp. Urgent. Final.The dorm doors rattled as footsteps thundered down the hall. A voice carried, clipped and strict.“Red Moon protocol! Everyone inside. No exceptions.”Red Moon.The words were enough to make the air in the hall thicken. My roommate—some silent girl who hadn’t spoken a single word to me since I arrived—snapped her shutters closed, crawled under her blanket, and pressed her hands over her ears.“Wait,” I whispered. “What’s going on?”She didn’t answer. Didn’t even look at me.More voices outside. Orders. Boots striking the stone. And then, one by one, the dorm doors slammed shut.I stood by my own door, hand hovering over the lock. My p

Last Updated : 2025-09-23

Chapter Two – The Red Moon Rules

I woke up to the sound of bells.Not the sharp kind that jolts you awake, but low and heavy, as though they’d been rung underwater. The sound rolled through the stone walls, vibrating faintly in my chest.The morning light crept weakly through my window, muted and gray, while a faint mist outside blurred the trees into shadowy outlines. My body felt heavy, like I’d been pinned down by strange dreams I couldn’t quite remember.I sat up, rubbing sleep from my eyes.“New day,” I whispered to myself, voice cracking a little. “Just a school. Just classes.”If I kept saying it, maybe I’d start believing it.***The main hall smelled of wax and damp stone, the kind of cold scent that clung to the back of your throat. Candles lined the walls in tall iron holders, dripping slowly, their flames bending as though someone was breathing over them.Students moved in groups, their footsteps echoing across the floor. I felt every glance flicked my way. Not long enough to be polite, not long enough to

Last Updated : 2025-09-23

Chapter One – The Iron Gates

The first thing I noticed about Blackthorne Academy was that the air felt wrong.Not heavy, not sharp—just wrong. Like it had been scrubbed clean of warmth and left with a faint metallic tang that clung to my tongue. The gates stood taller than any school entrance I’d ever seen, black iron twisted into wolf shapes that bared their teeth at me. Ivy crawled up the stone walls, strangling what little life dared grow here. Somewhere in the distance, a bell tolled once, low and final, like the sound of a coffin lid closing.“Charming,” I muttered, hugging my bag tighter.The cab that had dropped me off was already gone, its taillights swallowed by the winding road. I was alone. Or at least, I thought I was—until a whisper skated across the back of my neck.She doesn’t belong here.I spun, but no one was there. Just shadows, stretching too long in the fading afternoon light.“Senior year,” I told myself, forcing my sneakers forward through the gates. “Survive senior year, graduate, get the

Last Updated : 2025-09-23

Chapter Ten – Malachai’s Test

The summons arrived at dusk. This time, it wasn’t a letter. A student messenger simply appeared at Lyra’s door, head bowed, voice trembling. “North Tower. At sunset. Bring nothing.”She barely had time to breathe before she was walking again — through the narrow, spiraling halls, past portraits whose painted eyes seemed to follow her. The North Tower was the oldest part of Blackthorne, built before the Academy had walls or rules. No one went there willingly. By the time she reached the door, the last light of day had faded.Malachai stood waiting.He looked almost spectral in the dying glow — white-blond hair catching the last strands of light, eyes like chipped ice. He didn’t greet her. He just turned and opened the door, motioning her inside.The room beyond was silent. Circular. Its walls were carved with runes that pulsed faintly under the torchlight. There were no weapons here, no desks — only an obsidian floor that mirrored the ceiling.” This is the Chamber of Focus,” Mal

Last Updated : 2025-10-18

1 2

SCAN CODE TO READ ON APP